Mid-May along Metropolitan Parkway is all new leaf and heat shimmer, the point where a Michigan lawn stops deliberating and simply grows. NexGreen Lawn Tree and Exterior Pest works that surge and everything that follows it — mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups across the warm half of the year, then plowing, shoveling and salting through the cold one. Sixteen Mile cuts the city in a straight line, and the properties along it range from small front yards to wide frontage that changes character with the wind. Knowing when to cut and when to let a stressed lawn rest is most of what separates one August yard from the next. Two halves of a year, one continuous route.